HG: Nintendo is a frustrating company. They watched the rise of PSN and Xbox Live during the seventh generation of consoles. They watched as multiplayer shooters like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Gears of War, and Uncharted began dominating the landscape. For six years they were able to watch and learn the successes and mistakes of their competitors. Then they launched the Wii U, and Nintendo proved they hadn’t learned anything over the past six years. To this day, their biggest franchises have yet to incorporate multiplayer, and Third-Party developers are dropping support fast. At E3 2014, Nintendo announced Splatoon, a third-person multiplayer shooter for the Wii U. I got to go hands-on with the titles to see if Nintendo has finally learned.

I think it's more Plant's Vs Zombies Garden Warfare. Looks like good fun. This is Nintendo's way of getting into the competitive shooter market since they don't want to go into more violent shoot 'em ups. I think the game looks cool, just hope they price it well. I would pass at full retail.

Oh for Christ's sake! Does a shooter HAVE to be a body-mutilating blood bath just to be A WELL BUILT AND ENTERTAINING SHOOTER? You haven't even given a few rounds a TRY yet and you're ALREADY dismissing it as kiddy shit for reasons as shallow as its graphical style and its lack of blood and bullets!

GROW UP! The quality of the game isn't measured by the letter that the ESRB has stamped on the damned box!

It's people like you, who dismiss it for its looks nearly immediately, that cause Nintendo to keep going back to freaking MARIO for their games of choice! Why make something new and interesting when people like you won't even TRY it before shooting it down?!

what does the age matter? this game looks like a lot of fun and not at all like call of duty minus violence. It introduces new gameplay mechanics and it will be just another awesome competitive party game, like Mario Party, Smash Bros or Mario Kart.

I think Splatoon is amazing. With all these devs going for things like Levolution and lazer weapons etc etc, Splatoon focuses squarely on one thing; fun.

It seems a darn site more innovative than BF and COD and it doesn't seem to try hard either. The objective is so simply; you and your team have to paint as much of the map in your colour as possible and then you can traverse the map in squid form on the bits you've painted.

I vote for Splatoon, the underdog that bring fun and creativity back into the game. At the very least, it'll make a welcome break from coming across another xXXN0Sc0p3zL33tH4Xxx

Nintendo has made comments about it potentially having more modes too, so I think it will be a very robust experience compared to the simplicity of its reveal. I'm sold if there's a single player story mode.

You've got to be shitting me with this article... What looks be a simplified Nintendo E-Shop indie title is going to take on well established multi-hundred million dollar franchises. I can see all the CoD and BF fans standing outside their local gamestops by the thousands already...